Month: January 2012

The Hidrosogamoso Dam: Communities pay the high price of hydro-electric power in Colombia

January 31, 2012 James Bargent 0

At first sight, the small town of La Playa in the department of Santander in Colombia seems gripped by a minor boom. Its population has rocketed while new residential buildings, shops and small bars blaring out loud music have sprung up all over town. Yet the growth does nothing to mask the pervading atmosphere of desperation and frustration among its long-term residents, brought on by living with the uncertainty of whether there will even be a town in the future.

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The War Against Peasant Farmers Heats Up in Honduras

January 30, 2012 Aryeh Shell 0

“There is a war here in the Aguán,” says Juan, surveying the distant fields of African palm from the vantage point of his recently planted field of beans and corn. A young Honduran farmer, Juan lives in an encampment of 60 families, dedicated to growing basic grains and reclaiming their food sovereignty. “But the war is not against the drug traffickers, other countries or even organized crime,” he says. “It is a war against the campesinos.”

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Reagan’s Hand in Guatemala’s Genocide

January 25, 2012 Robert Parry 0

Guatemala has begun a politically difficult process to make human rights violators of the 1980s accountable for their crimes, including genocide inflicted on Indian villages, yet the United States still heaps praise on the killers’ chief […]

Thousands Protest Canadian Mining Project in Argentina

January 25, 2012 Marcela Valente 0

Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area’s sole source of drinking water. Residents of Famatina and neighbouring Chilecito have set up a partial roadblock, allowing local residents and tourists to pass, but stopping provincial authorities and anyone representing the Canadian mining company authorised by the Argentine government to mine the area.

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